On Friday, 18 May 2012 at 07:58:26 UTC, Lars T. Kyllingstad wrote:
I remember back when we were considering whether to move DMD,
Phobos and druntime from SVN on DSource to Git on GitHub, there
were some concerns about using Git on Windows. People claimed
that Git was a very Linux-centric tool, and that Windows
support was buggy at best.
Still, we made the switch, and I haven't really registered that
many complaints since. So now I'm curious: Windows users,
have you just resigned, or did Git actually turn out to work
well on Windows? Specifically, is it usable from the CMD
command line, and are graphical front-ends such as TortoiseGit
any good? (I know running it through Cygwin works well, but
that doesn't count.)
-Lars
I'm using both, Linux and Windows, but I prefer working on
Windows (I don't have X on my Linux installation, and it's not
very cozy to spend all day in console). On Windows I have MSYS +
Console2 setup, so I basically have nice looking (and more
importantly functional) Linux console on my Windows.
Oh, and yes, git (msysgit actually) is working great on Windows
(just a bit slower than Linux version, but still faster than svn).
